Product Details

• Actors: Charles Campbell (II), Angel Fisher, Jeff Gardner, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield
• Directors: Kazuyoshi Katayama
• Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, Import, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Smilodon Sweden
• VHS Release Date: September 26, 1996
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304065450
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #692,204 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Jules Verne meets Leiji Matsumoto in a two-part 1995 OAV that was clearly intended to be much longer. At the end of World War II, the Japanese battle sub Ra met the Liberty, its American counterpart. Both were powered by a mysterious energy source, and each carried a monitor from a highly advanced race from beneath the Earth's crust. Fifty years later, the Subterraneans attack, and humanity's only hope is the reconstructed Ra. The battle involving the Subterraneans, the useless U.N. fleet, and the Ra is played against a slushy romance between Go, the grandson of the Ra's original commander, and Annette, the kindly Subterranean. The story simply stops with the Ra heading for the subterranean realm to try to establish relations. The admiring depiction of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the war may offend some American viewers. Rated 15 Up: Violence, brief nudity, minor profanity. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's like an overnight fling..., February 28, 2006

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Nagtatampisaw "tagatanod" (SF, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super Atragon (DVD)

Hey, for $7 (at Fry's), I thought this was a bangin' deal. I'm not gonna repeat what the synopsis said but I think this is something cool enough for a teenager or an adult action buff to appreciate. Yeah, the story would toss out factoids left and right and if you're not into all that jumping around trying to puzzle pieces together then this movie would just turn you off near the end. BUT, for $7, ya can't beat it with my granny's whip.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring and Unamusing, March 18, 2001

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Adam West (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super Atragon: The Motion Picture [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'd Have to Agree with soldiersofoz. The movie never really developed. You sat there watching something you knew the ending to already. And soldiersofoz was right, the one chick seemed to scream "Avatar" every time she was in a scene. The Sob stories told in the movie made you wanna cry. Not over their sad lives but for them to shut up. It was a dissapointment and I feel sorry for my brother who bought the movie. Thats my opinion though, you could love it. Doubtful though.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Light Action Anime, July 13, 2004

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Atragon (DVD)

Last weekend I watched an interesting bit of anime called Super Atragon the Motion Picture. Super Atragon is based upon one of Japan's best-selling science fiction novels.

During the Second World War, Japan built a powerful submarine named the Ra. On its maiden voyage it ran afoul of a similar ship from the United States named the Liberty. Both ships disappeared. Then, many years later, strange events in Antarctica are causing the ice sheets to break up and move north. Investigating ships are destroyed by a gravity lens that can focus a beam from a tower rising out of the South Pole. It is then that the undersea battleship Ra makes its reappearance.

The Ra was built using a new energy source that was discover when a strange object crashed in the Japanese countryside in 1933. Shortly after construction began a young woman appeared who claimed to have knowledge of the new energy source. Unknown to the Japanese, similar events occurred in the United States. Now, as the Earth comes under siege from an unknown enemy, the Ra appears to be the only hope of survival.

As the enemy works to complete a ring around the planet that will produce microwave rays to destroy the surface dwellers, the Ra must make its mission known while trying to stay an independent force. The enemy turns out to be dwellers from the Earth's interior and the new energy source was a test to see if the surface humans should be allowed to live. Using the energy to build warships was a bad move. But the woman helping the Japanese decides to protect the humans. In a climactic battle for the fate of the Earth, the Liberty reappears and the fate of the Earth is about to be decided.

A very good film with a strong plot and excellent cinematography. The creators of this movie definitely know how to use image to express ideas. I felt this one was superior to most of the anime I have seen over the years. So if you are a fan of Hollow Earth and good science fiction, Super Atragon is a movie to look out for.